Raphael Fortulan

UK — HAG/06, Haslett Building, University of Huddersfield

China — Ligong 2107, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China

福建师范大学旗山校区理工楼2-107, 福州, 福建

I am a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Huddersfield and a Visiting Researcher at the Unconventional Computing Laboratory at the University of the West of England.

My research focuses on unconventional computing, neuromorphic systems, machine learning, and soft matter electronics. I am particularly interested in physical reservoir computing and how complex physical materials can process information through nonlinear dynamics and memory effects.

I teach modules in analogue electronics, electric circuits, parallel computing and HPCs. My work combines electrical engineering, materials science, and computational modelling, with applications ranging from bio-inspired computing systems to experimental electronic materials.

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.